Word: broader
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While debates over college curriculum get the most attention, professors generally can resist or subvert the most wrongheaded changes and students generally have mature enough judgment to sort out the arguments. Elementary- and secondary-school curriculums reach a far broader segment at a far more / impressionable age, and political expediency more often wins over intellectual honesty. Exchanges have been vituperative in New York, where a state task force concluded that "African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Puerto Ricans and Native Americans have all been victims of an intellectual and educational oppression . . . Negative characterizations, or the absence of positive references, have...
Soon after the Chernobyl meltdown, Soviet officials ordered the permanent evacuation of villages within 30 km (19 miles) of the power plant, but heavy nuclear fallout covered a much broader area. In some parts of Narodichi, a Ukrainian agricultural district whose boundaries lie some 60 km (37 miles) from the reactor, levels of radioactivity are still nine times as high as the acceptable limits, according to the local Communist Party chief. Vladimir Lysovsky, a doctor at Narodichi District Central Hospital, contends that in the past 18 months, there has been a dramatic rise in cases of thyroid disease, anemia...
...necessarily. The unification of Germany does not abolish the consequences of World War II, including the psychological scars, nor does it change Germany's formal renunciation of nuclear weapons. The Federal Republic's foreign policy was always based, above all, on commerce, whereas ours is broader, encompassing political and strategic considerations. In any case, the more the European Community integrates, the less all this matters. What really matters is the global strength of Europe...
AIDS activists have been vocal in urging the Food and Drug Administration to relax its standards and authorize for general use several experimental drugs that appear to help fight the disease. Even though many medical experts worry about the dangers of releasing relatively untested drugs to a broader population, the FDA made a controversial decision last year to allow wide distribution of certain drugs that are still in the testing phase. Among the first was DDI, or dideoxyinosine, an unproven medicine dubbed by its enthusiasts "AZT without tears." The reference is to the most commonly used anti-AIDS drug, which...
Under the new plan, honors juniors would take a broader, indivisible full-year course rather than two more focused half courses. This system, Maier said, would allow students to integrate their coursework with their major field of study more easily...